In what increasingly looks like a facsimile of updates on the defence of Bagdad in 2003, Duff and Phelps continue to accentuate the positives about the potential bidders for Rangers Football Club or its assets but the charade is finally running out of acts.
This afternoon’s withdrawal of interest by the Blue Knight (singular), Paul Murray, the accountant who was a director of Rangers during the hugely controversial EBT years, and Brian Kennedy, should allow minds to focus on the most important question, what next?
Here’s a prediction for you:
Rangers Football Club will play their last game on Sunday 13 May 2012. One day next week, possibly even before the appeal against the SFA Disciplinary Tribunal punishment, one, or perhaps more, of the prominent players who have been jockeying for position recently will commence proceedings to buy a club in the Scottish Football League, or form a new club, ask for permission to play at Airdrie or Paisley, and apply for SFA membership. If membership is granted, an application will be lodged to join the Scottish Football League as soon as a vacancy becomes available.
In time Craig Whyte will sell or otherwise lose control of Ibrox Stadium, and if it is still in an operable condition, the football team hoping to profit from the demise of Rangers will look to acquire rights to play there.
You have witnessed an incredible period of Scottish social history in recent months.
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WG
spill ?
Hail Hail
bye bye rangers
On pin stripe legs the taxman comes
softly through the shadow of the evening sun
stealing past the windows of the blissfully dead
looking for a victim shivering in bed
Searching out fear in the empty blue room
and suddenly a movement in the corner of the room
and there is nothing I can do when I realise with fright
that the taxman is having me for dinner tonight
Quietly he laughs and shaking his head
creeps closer now closer to the foot of the bed
and softer than shadow and quicker than flies
his arms are around me and his tongue in my eyes
Be still be calm be quiet now my precious boy
don’t struggle like that or I will only love you more
for it’s much too late to get away or turn on the light
the taxman is having you for dinner tonight
And I feel like I’m being eaten by
a thousand million shivering furry holes
and I know that in the morning
I will wake up in the shivering cold
and the taxman is always hungry
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Re: post from last thread:
gerryguk7 on 11 May, 2012 at 13:23 said:
For what it’s worth, I think the appeal against the transfer ban will not succeed, or at least not in whole.
Firstly, I think the ground of appeal that it was all Craig Whtye’s fault is without basis. The idea of corporate responsibility on the company for the actings of directors of the company is long established. Rangers seem to have won the Premier league after Whyte took control last year, a period in which he is alleged to have with-held taxes. Rangers defence is that he alone is responsible for bringing the game into disrepute by failing to remit PAYE/NIC. To take that logic to its natural conclusion, as this with-holding funded the club during May last year. the league title (corporately awarded to “Rangers” for the actings of its directors and employees) should be awarded to Craig Whtye. In other words, he’s entirely personally responsible for all the successes and failures of the club, or the club itself is corporately responsible for all of the directors’ successes failings and, erm, alleged with-holdings. I know which version of events has a more solid basis in company law, a version which I am sure (honestly) is replicated in the SFA’s Articles of Association.
Another reason why they won’t (in my opinion) succeed is more down to the nature of litigation, and human (or lawyer) behaviour. A member of the bench in such a high profile case will, in my opinion, be dis-inclined to disagree with a learned QC. There is safety in numbers, and no-one wants to be thought of as the outlying minority view. More to the point, the statement of reasons seems to preclude any suggestion that the panel failed to interpret the rules, or apply their minds to other sanctions. You can “bomb-proof” statements of reasons prior to appeal hearings, and the QC seems to have given this one a pretty good coating.
As I said, a caveat on all of the above is that it’s just my interpretation. An appeal hearing is litigation, and you can’t always predict how another human being will interpret the rules, but there are a few ground rules to appeal hearings and, in this case, I think the ban will stand. As ever, it’s the man in the red jersey and the wig that counts.
London Based Biddders Revealed….
‘Only match fixing in its various forms might be a more serious breach’
MIGHT…
So potentially as serious or worse than match fixing.
HH
top ten?
top ten
And now, the end is near …
I see a large lady lubricating her vocal chords.
When I was watching Celtic at one of the lowest ebbs in their history for all those years after the absolute high of 1988, I never dreamed these days would be possible.
I have watched rangers in administration suffer blow after blow and enjoyed every minute of it.
I have watched bitter, bitter huns crumble and refuse to make eye contact and I have loved it.
A part of me was hopiong Sunday would be one of the best wakes ever seen but now I realise Sunday is OUR DAY to celebrate all that we are, all we have been and more importantly all we will achieve in the future.
We are Celtic, were you never walk alone.
Hail! Hail!
Cowdenbeath springs to mind
Is that it? Can I get some sleep now? HH !
St Mirren are still up for sale……
Dick byrne,
excellent,surprised none of the Brannans are part of that
consortium,or will they be a late bidder just before the music starts,
eastenderscsc
Dick Byrne,
Makes as much sense as anything else.
If Ian traded in the caff and Phil sold the backstreet car repair shop I’m sure they would have a credible bid.
LMAO while ranjurrs die,…
OleBlueEyesCSC
DICK BYRNE 1324
There isn’t a hope in hell of them being accepted by the hordes.
Not a cardigan between them.
Didn’t Frank wear one now and again? Maybe they can dig him up-they’ve tried everything else!
“You have witnessed an incredible period of Scottish social history in recent months.”
Spot on, Paul
THE EXILED TIM 1326
Aye,Findlay might have had his eyes on the prize when he got involved there.
You’ve long suggested Fife,as I recall……
Queen of the South it is then
Paul67,
What about the London mob……..they have buckets of money. (well so says the MSM)
And Paul67 you have played an absolute blinder these last few months. Great to hear you on Radio Scotland. Here’s hoping when the Gers ultimately go down it will be the start of a new era of integrity and intelligence for Scottish football; clubs, administrators, media.
Guys on here, don’t take Paul for granted, let him know you love him!
Paul67
Are you dismissing this LBC bid as a sham?
Paul,
a few weeks ago I told you who the target was.
Cowdenbeath.
Seville67
philhoopyloguewantsthebighouseofpainclosedasap on 11 May, 2012 at 13:26 said:
Never mind newco. At 1.05am this very morning on way to hospital a new member of the Celtic Family, Eirinn Christina Logue was born in my car at the side of the road in Corofin, Co Clare. I can’t believe i delivered a baby! Mom and baby ghirl doing well. I’m away for a wee sleep
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WELL DONE,SIR!
In there from start to finish,too……..
philvisreturns @ 13:15
..and Agent Whyte’s Excellent Adventure.
A Son of Dan @ 13:26
The 90s was a difficult time. We were cheated on a massive scale – TB and PMcS deserved much much better. At last Karma catches up !
Paul67
And I love you so
The people ask me how
How I’ve lived till now
I tell them I don’t know
I guess they understand
How lonely life has been
But life began again
The day you took my hand
And yes, I know how lonely life can be
The shadows follow me ‘n’ the night won’t set me free
But I don’t let the evening get me down
Now that you’re around me
And you love me, too
Your thoughts are just for me
You set my spirit free
I’m happy that you do
The book of life is brief
And once a page is read
All but life is dead
That is my belief
And yes, I know how lonely life can be
The shadows follow me and the night won’t set me free
But I don’t let the evening get me down
Now that you’re around me
Hail Hail
Chris very very very close McLaughlin coming on BBC 1NEWS now.
Just read that rangers were told prior to the original panel sitting who would be on it and yet that Fat, Snide, McCoist comes out with that disgraceful rant afterwards.
Sally, I am so glad you are man in charge when rangers die.
Paul, the Club is Cowdenbeath, 1st division next year. Credit to @JohnboyMaclean for this.
I imagine the groundshare will be Kilmarnock.
The unseen Fenian hand now moves in to deliver the fatal blow…..
Bye bye rANGERs
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
They were called Cowndebeath Rangers in their early years incidentally.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
Karma has donned Size 12 steel toe capped boots on and not let us down.
HH
Paul67 – you better not be saying I am not going to get the chance to buy the bike….
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Why on earth would Kennedy be holding a press conference? He has had more knockbacks than an acne covered 12 year old at a school disco
You’ve been exposed as the ego driven self publicising muppet you are Brian. Let it go son….
Posted late last night that I was told Ticketus now fully expect NO football will be played at ibrox next season ant that is why they are moving against Craigy Bhoy.